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Times correspondent to speak on religious tolerance, Nov. 28

Posted November 16, 2001; 09:51 a.m.

by rstevens

national religion correspondent at The New York Times will present a public lecture titled "Toleration for What Purpose? A Perspective on American Religious Pluralism" Wednesday, Nov. 28.

Gustav Niebuhr will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. He reports on trends in religion as well as breaking news throughout the United States. He also writes a biweekly religion column for The Times and covers religion stories in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Before coming to the Times in 1994, Niebuhr was a religion reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1986-89), The Wall Street Journal (1989-92) and The Washington Post (1992-94). A guest speaker at many academic institutions, he recently taught courses on religion and the news media at Union Theological Seminary in New York.